What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Deerpark (Horeabbey parish) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Deerpark (Horeabbey parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a high natural rise in undulating pasture, where a semi-circular bank and outer ditch survive despite ancient quarrying that removed the northern sector. The eastern and western boundaries remain distinct, with rough stone facing visible on parts of the exterior, while the interior contains a smaller raised area defined by its own scarp.

In improved, undulating pasture, on a high, natural rise. Semi-circular area (dims. 50m ENE-WSW; 24m NNW-SSE) defined by bank (overall Wth 7.75m; Wth at top 0.75m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.5m) E-NW. Some rough stone-facing on exterior of bank SW-WSW and at SE. Fosse (overall Wth 7.5m; basal Wth 1.5m; D 0.65m) SE-WNW and is best defined SW-W. Interior is obscured by hay. Raised, level area (dims. 17m ENE-WSW; 9m NNW-SSE) defined by scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 0.35m) ENE-S is at W-side of interior. Substantial depression (Dth c. 2-3m) where entire N-sector of monument has been quarried in antiquity. Monument depicted on 1840-41 OS 6-inch map as a sub-circular enclosure (dims. c. 60m ENE-WSW; c. 55m NNW-SSE) truncated by the Cashel-Golden road across N-sector. Enclosure (TS060-083002-) is to immediate SE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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